The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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And many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles,  
deceiving the stupid multitude.  
Against friars.  
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209.  
Pharisees--that is to say, friars.  
[
Footnote: Compare No. 837, 11. 54-57, No. 1296 (p. 363 and 364),  
and No. 1305 (p. 370).]  
Against writers of epitomes.  
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210.  
Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love, seeing that the love  
of any thing is the offspring of this knowledge, the love being the  
more fervent in proportion as the knowledge is more certain. And  
this certainty is born of a complete knowledge of all the parts,  
which, when combined, compose the totality of the thing which ought  
to be loved. Of what use then is he who abridges the details of  
those matters of which he professes to give thorough information,  
while he leaves behind the chief part of the things of which the  
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